Formulas that stop bleeding
Huai hua san
Pagoda Tree Flower Powder
- Chinese name
- 槐花散
- Group
- Formulas that stop bleeding
- English name
- Sophora Flower Powder
Stops bleeding, cools the bowel, expels wind and moves the qi.
Indications
For blood with the stool, blood in the stool and haemorrhoids.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pagoda tree flower (huai hua) | 9–15 g |
| Arborvitae leaf (ce bai ye) | 6–9 g |
| Schizonepeta spike (jing jie sui) | 6–9 g |
| Mature bitter orange (zhi ke) | 6–9 g |
- Tongue
- red
- Pulse
- rapid and tight
Variations
- For strong heat in the bowel: add huang lian and huang bai.
- For haemorrhoids: add great burnet and cuttlefish bone.
- For amoebic dysentery: together with bai tou weng tang.
- For blood deficiency: add dang gui.
- For ulcerative colitis: omit bitter orange; add white peony, great burnet, bai ji, cuttlefish bone and huang qin.